YouTube blocked the channel of news agency Ura.ru

Video hosting YouTube has blocked the channel of the Russian news agency Ura.ru. About it reported the agency itself.

“This account has been suspended for violating YouTube Community Guidelines,” the agency’s YouTube page said in a statement.

Channel editor Mikhail Titov said that 85,000 people subscribed to the channel, and he called the video about referendums in the annexed territories of the Russian Federation the reason for blocking.

“We received the first strike on May 3 for last year’s video with a statement from the administration of the Kherson region about holding a referendum on joining the Russian Federation. The second is on May 12 for a video with a story about what will change in the LPR and DPR after the referendums on joining Russia. There were no hard shots or appeals, only statements by officials and facts,” Titov specified.

The editor stated that the agency has already created a new channel on video hosting.

Hosting mid-May deleted channel of the radio station “Komsomolskaya Pravda”. At the time of blocking the channel, it had 510,000 subscribers. Then the radio station announced that it had started a new channel on YouTube, but when you go to the page from the official website of the radio, the same blocking message appears there.

Since the beginning of the special operation, YouTube video hosting has been regularly blocking the channels of Russian media, politicians and companies on its site. The channels of Rostec, Kamaz and UAC. In addition, Google blocked the Duma TV channel. From the media, video hosting imposed similar measures on RBCchannels MIA “Russia Today”, TASS, etc.